The History of Moviegoing, Exhibition, and Reception—or HoMER—Project was founded by an international group of cinema scholars in June 2004.
It aims to promote understanding of the complex, international phenomena of film going, exhibition, and reception through several means:
Åsa Jernudd
Maria Luna
Åsa Jernudd is affiliated to the department of Media and Communication Studies at Örebro University. Her area of research is cinema studies, more specifically, related to historical exhibition and audiences. Currently, she leads a project financed by the Swedish National Board for Research and in collaboration with the National Library, entitled, Swedish Cinema and Everyday Life, a study of cinemagoing in its peak and decline. Åsa was thrilled to discover the HoMER network when attending ‘The Glow in their Eyes’ conference in Ghent in 2007.
Artistic director at MIDBO (International Documentary Film Festival of Bogotá) in Colombia and adjunct Professor in the Department of Audiovisual Media at TecnoCampus ESUPT, Universitat Pompeu Fabra) and UOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) in Barcelona. Researcher of the group Narratives of Resistance, member of networks such as Posturas Críticas (Colombian women researchers in film studies), ALADOS, the association of Colombian documentary filmmaker and Cultura de la Pantalla. Coeditor with Pablo Mora and Daniela Samper of the book Territorio y memoria sin fronteras, nuevas estrategias para pensar lo real (2021) and author of the chapter Sur on Demand in the collective book Cines latinoamericanos, en busca del público perdido (2020), edited by Ana Rosas Mantecón and Leandro González. She has attended the HoMER conference and activities since the Homer@NECS workshop Comparative approaches to moviegoing exhibition and reception (2014, Milano).